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My Wife has 2 Carbon Fibre harps that I made for her. One is called Obsidia, the other is called Ravens Wing.
In my personal view, you would be mad to take up guitar. A harp is in a different league from a guitar. Playing a harp makes you stand out. Why would you want to be just another guitarist? My wife plays at a lot of open mikes. The normal reaction from the audience is “Oooh, a harp!” She could just sit and pluck random strings and they would still enjoy it. A group of guitarists and her were recently invited to play at a charity event in Pembroke Castle. She played first and had quite a crowd of people sitting and listening. Then after an hour she stopped for the others to play. Everyone got up and wandered off to do other things.
Thank you both for the comments.
My apologies. I did not mean to hijack this thread.
If anyone wants to know more about my harp, send me a PM. If people are interested I may start a thread telling you how it came about.Back to the lights. I did not buy a kit for the lights. They are a self adhesive strip of white LED’s bought from Ebay. The strip is 5 mts ( 16 Feet.) long and can be cut down. They are made to run on 12V but I found they are adequate on 9V. I use a PP3 ( I am not sure what they are known as in other countries could be 1604D or 6F22 ) These last many hours. Just solder on some wires, add a switch and battery connector and there you go. As the harp is black and the strip that the LED’s are on was white, I filled in the gaps with a Sharpie. (Indelible marker pen.)
My wife was playing at an open mike in a local pub. They had red and green spot lights. She started to panic when her red and blue strings both looked black. They managed to find a table light that got her through it. After that I fitted LED lights. They have been very useful. Even allow her to play in the dark.
